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Post by artemis on May 9, 2013 4:38:42 GMT -5
"Veteran film director Bryan Forbes who created The Stepford Wives dies age 86 following long illness
Veteran film director and author Bryan Forbes has died at the age of 86 following a long illness.
The creator of 1970s classic horror film The Stepford Wives died surrounded by family members at his home in Virginia Water, Surrey.
After working as an actor in London’s West End, Mr Forbes went on to become one of the UK’s most respected directors.
He released a string of hits, including 1961’s Whistle Down the Wind, which he later described as his most popular film.
His varied work was recognised in 2004 when the director was awarded a CBE for services to the arts and the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain.
Mr Forbes counted the late Queen Mother amongst his friends and worked with some of the UK’s most high-profile stars, including Roger Moore, Elton John and Michael Caine.
In an interview with the Daily Mail last June, Mr Forbes revealed that he had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1975 before doctors later admitted they had made a mistake.
Born in Stratford, East London, in 1926, Mr Forbes trained as an actor at prestigious drama school RADA before serving in the military for three years.
Following a number of minor acting roles he set up a production company with his friend Richard Attenborough in 1959, only taking charge of Whistle Down the Wind - his first film behind the lens - when an established director was forced to pull out.
Journalist and author Matthew D’Ancona, a family friend, described Mr Forbes as ‘simply irreplaceable’.
He said: ‘Bryan Forbes was a titan of cinema, known and loved by people around the world in the film and theatre industries and known in other fields including politics.
‘He is simply irreplaceable and it is wholly apt that he died surrounded by his family.’
As an actor he appeared in the 1955 film The Colditz Story. He also began to write for the screen, receiving his first full credit for The Cockleshell Heroes in the same year.
In 1964, Forbes wrote and directed Séance on a Wet Afternoon. In 1965 he went to Hollywood to make King Rat.
Forbes was married to actress and Sixties pin-up Nanette Newman, who he wed in 1955 after divorcing his first wife Constance Smith.
The couple had two daughters, TV presenter Emma Forbes and journalist Sarah Standing.
Over his lengthy career, Mr Forbes juggled a plethora of interests, including owning a bookshop for 37 years that contained 10,000 books.
He was also the president of EMI Elstree studios, wrote a regular column for the Spectator magazine and penned two autobiographies.
Mr Forbes also wrote a number of novels, with his last, The Soldier’s Story, published last year.
Speaking to the Daily Mail last year, the director said his ideal day would be spent with his three granddaughters, India, Tilly and Lily, and said he wanted to be remembered as ‘somebody not taken in by fame’.
A devoted family man, Forbes insisted on a clause being included in any work contract that guaranteed his wife and children would be flown to a location if he was working abroad for longer than three weeks.
Asked how he envisaged his funeral, Mr Forbes said: ‘I’m not very religious so I’d be happy for family and friends to remember my good bits, scatter my ashes in the garden and plant a tree in my memory.’ "
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Post by artemis on May 14, 2013 3:34:06 GMT -5
"$40,000-a-Night Escorts: Secrets of the Cannes Call Girls
A businessman -- and Gadhafi associate -- who was convicted in a 2007 prostitution ring bust reveals all the dirty secrets of how models (and even some Hollywood actresses) swarm the hotels and yacht parties during the fest: says one escort, it's "the biggest payday of the year."
Like Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Sharon Stone, Lebanese businessman Elie Nahas was once a regular at the Cannes Film Festival.
But since his bust in 2007 for his part in the most explosive prostitution scandal in the history of the festival, Nahas, 48, can't leave his native Lebanon. He hopes that his eight-year prison sentence, slapped on him in absentia by a French judge after a trial in Marseilles in October, will be overturned on appeal this year, but he's not overly optimistic. In fact, he also is fearful that if he leaves Lebanon, he'll be picked up by Interpol.
Nahas, who owns a Beirut-based modeling agency, used to work as a right-hand man for Moatessem Gadhafi, the playboy son of Libyan strongman Muammar Gadhafi, Nahas' longtime pal. It was during this time that Nahas was arrested on charges of running a prostitution ring that supplied more than 50 women "of various nationalities" to the younger Gadhafi and other rich Middle Eastern clients during the festival. Moatessem was killed with his father in Libya in 2011.
The women ran the gamut, from full-time escorts to models to beauty queens, and they serviced men in hotels, on yachts and in the palatial villas in the hills above Cannes, police said. Philippe Camps, a lawyer for a Paris-based anti-prostitution organization that was a civil plaintiff in the trial, tells THR that some of the women were brought to Cannes under false pretenses and coerced into prostitution.
Police broke into Nahas' room at the city's famed Carlton hotel in August 2007 and arrested him after a lengthy investigation involving wiretaps, which helped them identify Nahas and seven others as key members of the vice ring. (Prostitution is legal in France, but soliciting, whether with advertising or on a street corner, is not.)
Nahas remains bitter about his arrest and subsequent conviction and denies he was running a prostitution ring. He says he was unfairly singled out in a sea of rich players who move in and around the Cannes Film Festival's second-biggest business after movies: sex.
"Why me?" asks Nahas during a phone interview with THR from Beirut. "The police know what goes on during the film festival, and they turn a blind eye. But they went after me. Why? Because I worked for Gadhafi."
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'They Can Make up to $40,000 a Night'
Every year, women ranging from what the French call putes de luxes (high-priced call girls), who charge an average of $4,000 a night, to local streetwalkers, who normally get little more than $50 or $75 an hour turning tricks in nearby Nice, converge on Cannes for what one Parisian hooker calls "the biggest payday of the year." The influx is hard not to notice. "Hookers stand out in Cannes. They're the ones who are well-dressed and not smoking," tweeted Roger Ebert in 2010.
"We all look forward to it," says a local prostitute in Cannes who goes by the name of Daisy on her website but declined to give her surname. Daisy is one of many independent escorts who have their own websites and usually avoid going to hotels and bars -- except during the festival. "There's a lot of competition because there are so many girls, but the local ones have an advantage. We know the hotel concierges."
The local prostitutes, says Daisy, routinely drop cash off with concierges at the town's top hotels. In return, if they are lucky, concierges sometimes steer clients their way. During the 10-day festival, an estimated 100 to 200 hookers stroll in and out of the big hotels every day, according to hotel sources.
Nahas says the money can be bigger than most people realize. The most beautiful call girls, he says, know to target the high-end hotels "where all the Arabs stay."
"They can make up to $40,000 a night," says Nahas. "Arabs are the most generous people in the world. If they like you, they will give you a lot of money. At Cannes, they carry money around in wads of 10,000 euros. To them, it's just like paper. They don't even like to count it. They'll just hand it to the girls without thinking. I know the system."
The serious action starts after 10 p.m., he says. Call girls sit in the lobby, and prospective clients check them out.
"It's all done with hand signals," he says. "The guys signal their room numbers with their hands and the girls follow them."
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The Organized Rings
Some of the "luxury prostitutes" come as part of an organized ring, the type of operation that police said Nahas ran, and others fly in small groups on their own, mainly from Paris, London, Venezuela, Brazil, Morocco and Russia. Still others take advantage of the other big event taking place on the Cote d'Azur, the Monaco Grand Prix, and rent hotel rooms in the town of Beausoleil, just behind Monaco, and commute between there and Cannes, a 40-minute drive.
Nahas denies he was running a prostitution ring but admits he arranged for women to come to Cannes during the festival. His job, he says, was to pick them up at Nice International Airport, bring them to the port at Cannes and place them on small boats that took them out to Gadhafi's yacht, the Che Guevara, and other luxury vessels.
"I was not party to anything else," insists Nahas. "I don't know what took place between any of them. I had no part of it. They may have just been there to talk and have fun."
Until his 2007 arrest, Nahas was best known for throwing a $1 million birthday party for Moatessem Gadhafi in Marrakesh in 2004. He paid Enrique Iglesias $500,000 to attend and flew in Carmen Electra for $50,000, he says. Kevin Costner also attended.
"Gadhafi never touched Carmen," says Nahas. "In fact, she was a little angry because she felt he didn't pay enough attention to her. But Gadhafi was shy, believe it or not. Women had to make the first move." (A spokesperson for Electra could not be reached for comment.)
Nahas -- who was jailed for 11 months after his arrest in France then released for lack of proof -- says the younger Gadhafi sent him $25,000 a month to live on after his reputation was ruined in Lebanon and he no longer could work. Since Gadhafi's death, the money has dried up. "I cry blood for him every day," says Nahas.
When Nahas was arrested, police confiscated an address book that contained dozens of names and contact information for some of the richest princes and potentates in the Middle East. Nahas admits that he knew them all but denies that he procured hookers for them.
But even if he did, says Nahas, there are plenty more like him all over Cannes during the festival.
"Please," says Nahas. "Every year during the festival there are 30 or 40 luxury yachts in the bay at Cannes, and every boat belongs to a very rich person. Every boat has about 10 girls on it; they are usually models, and they are usually nude or half nude. It's drugs and drink and beautiful women. Go out on one and you'll see. The girls are all waiting for their envelopes at the end of the night. It's been going on there for 60 years."
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The Envelope, Please
A "gift" contained in an envelope, according to Nahas and a number of veteran Cannes escort women interviewed by THR, is how prostitutes get paid at the festival.
"It's always a gift," says a Russian woman who oversees a Paris-based escort agency with branches in London and Dubai. "Clients are told to put the money in an envelope and write 'gift' on the outside of it."
Women installed on yachts in Cannes during the film festival are called "yacht girls," and the line between professional prostitutes and B- or C-list Hollywood actresses and models who accept payment for sex with rich older men is sometimes very blurred, explains one film industry veteran.
"You'd definitely recognize more than a few names from Hollywood," he says. "These are actresses who made bad career choices and fell off the radar. They tell themselves what they're doing at Cannes is OK, that they're just on dates with rich men, when the reality is they're doing what prostitutes do. But they like the money."
Carole Raphaelle Davis -- a longtime French-American film and TV actress (2 Broke Girls, Angel) who grew up in international circles in Paris, London and Thailand -- says few people realize that some prominent and moneyed society women spent many years as high-priced prostitutes.
Davis, who is married to TV comedy writer Kevin Rooney and divides her time between France and Beverly Hills, says she has two acquaintances who used to work the Cannes Film Festival as well as other exotic locales around the world. "I could never understand how they could do what they did," says Davis.
Davis says she has been propositioned by some of the richest men in the world but could never imagine sleeping with them for money.
She says the women she knew "traveled the world like jet-setters," and one of them eventually ended up marrying one of the richest men in France.
"This woman didn't even enjoy sex, she told me," says Davis. "But she didn't mind it, either. She didn't mind sleeping with men who were repulsive. She said it never lasted more than five minutes, so it wasn't that bad."
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Post by artemis on May 14, 2013 3:49:41 GMT -5
"Michael J. Fox Debuts NBC Show Aided by Parkinson’s Drugs
Michael J. Fox left prime-time television more than a decade ago to focus on his battle with Parkinson’s disease. Now he’s back, with the help of drugs that keep his own shaking from the illness mostly under control.
Fox, 51, will star in “The Michael J. Fox Show,” a comedy on Comcast Corp. (CMCSA)’s NBC about a news anchor who returns to work after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s, a condition that causes nerve cells to misfire, leaving patients unable to control their movements. The program will air on Thursdays when the new TV season starts, NBC said yesterday in a statement.
NBC is betting the actor’s return to the spotlight can help it climb out of last place among the four major broadcast networks in total viewers. Fox, who disclosed his condition in 1998 and last anchored the series “Spin City” in 2000, has kept many of the specifics of his health struggles private.
“Parkinson’s is different in every patient,” Michael Okun, national medical director of the National Parkinson Foundation, said in a phone interview. “Personally I think he’s being very responsible for not giving a lot of details.”
NBC is presenting its 2013-14 schedule to advertisers as part of an annual ritual where broadcasters seek advance commitments from sponsors for their prime-time programs.
The network, which outbid competitors for the show and ordered a full 22-episode season without a script, is banking on Fox, who came to prominence in the 1980s with “Family Ties,” to appeal to a wide audience. Sony Corp. (6758) and Olive Bridge Entertainment are co-producers.
Shooting Schedule
Fox’s condition doesn’t require special accommodations to produce the show, although his medications are timed for shooting sessions, said an NBC spokesman.
The network is using “The Michael J. Fox Show” to help rebuild its Thursday night lineup with the end of “30 Rock” and “The Office.”
While Fox is remembered and well-liked by fans, the success of the show will hinge of the quality of the story and the acting, said Brad Adgate, head of research at New York advertising-services firm Horizon Media.
“It really depends on how viewers react to the show based on character development and story lines,” Adgate said. “The ratings will not be what they were when he starred in previous sitcoms.” Drug Cocktail
NBC may generate $3.8 billion in advance advertising commitments, a 17 percent increase from 2011, the last year without major campaign spending, according to estimates from researcher SNL Kagan. That would be down 20 percent from last year, when political outlays soared with the 2012 U.S. presidential election.
Fox takes a combination of medicines that includes amantadine, originally used to combat the flu. The drug helps reduce his dyskinesia, the uncontrolled movements related to long-term use of the Parkinson’s drug levodopa. Amantadine was serendipitously discovered to be beneficial to some patients with Parkinson’s, according to Okun.
Parkinson’s can cause tremors, stiffness and cognitive impairment, and may affect more than 5 million people globally, according to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.
Patients often rely on a combination of therapies to manage symptoms, including at times more than a dozen different drugs, said Okun, author of “Parkinson’s Treatment: 10 Secrets to a Happier Life.” No Flu
Fox spoke of his medicine regimen in an interview last year on ABC’s “World News with Diane Sawyer,” saying the combination reduced the uncontrolled movements that had made work challenging.
“Once that was tackled, to the point where I can be as still as I am now, I thought, ‘There’s no reason not to work,’” Fox said. “Now I have less dyskinesia and don’t get the flu, so that’s kinda nice.”
NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt and Fox, through his publicist, declined to be interviewed.
Comcast, based in Philadelphia, fell 0.5 percent to $42.86 at 1:50 p.m. in New York. Shares of the company, which paid $16.7 billion to complete its purchase of NBC Universal this year, had climbed 15 percent this year through May 10, matching the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index.
Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 1991 and disclosed the condition publicly seven years later, according to a biography at the website of the foundation he established in 2000 to push for more insight into the disease. The goal is to fund development of new drugs, including the creation of a vaccine. ‘Family Ties’
The organization has funded $325 million in research, Sarah Schultz, an outside spokeswoman for the foundation with Ruder Finn in New York, said in an e-mail. It works closely with pharmaceutical companies like Sanofi (SAN) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (BMY) to keep experimental medicines moving through the pipeline, according to the website.
Fox gained national fame in NBC’s “Family Ties” playing Alex P. Keaton, a teen Republican who argues with his liberal parents. The show, which ran for seven seasons starting in 1982, won Fox his first acting Emmy and Golden Globe awards.
After years of appearing in films, including the 1985 hit “Back to the Future,” Fox returned to television with “Spin City” on Walt Disney Co. (DIS)’s ABC in 1996, winning another Emmy and three Golden Globes. Changing Regimen
Even after Fox stepped away from “Spin City” to focus on his foundation and treatment, he continued to appear on TV shows, including “Scrubs” and “Boston Legal,” both on ABC, CBS’s “The Good Wife,” and HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”
With “The Good Wife,” Fox appeared in four episodes in each of the past two seasons as Louis Canning, a lawyer who uses his disability to win sympathy with judges and juries. The actor was nominated for an Emmy in 2011 and 2012 for the role.
The nature of Fox’s illness is such that his mix of medicines may require tinkering, Okun said, noting that such regimens “often have to be changed every three or six months.”
Amantadine works better for some people than for others, and has side effects such as swelling and rash on the legs and hallucinations or confusion, he said.
“There are lots of great things you can do to help yourself with Parkinson’s disease,” Okun said, “but don’t look for the one-off pill.”
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Post by artemis on May 15, 2013 5:08:55 GMT -5
"Brooke Mueller's Mafia Connections? Actress Went On Rant Prior To Rehab
Brooke Mueller was reportedly ranting about her "mafia connections" when she was placed on an 5150 involuntary psychiatric hold earlier this month, reports TMZ.
The actress voluntarily entered rehab for prescription drug abuse after she was released from the 72-hour hold on May 4 -- and according to TMZ's sources it's a good thing Mueller was able to get some help.
Sources told the website that on May 1, a man called 911 from Mueller's Los Angeles home and claimed she had assaulted him. When cops arrived at the scene, the 35-year-old was reportedly rambling about how she is connected to the mafia, and told police that she had been in contact with FBI for months regarding her ex-husband, Charlie Sheen, and that she had been giving them information that would "bring him down."
Police reportedly believed Mueller was under the influence of drugs or alcohol and appeared to be exhausted. Mueller's 4-year-old twins Bob and Max were in the house at the time, prompting police to call Children's Services, who have since placed the boys in the temporary custody of Sheen's other ex-wife Denise Richards.
Sources told TMZ that it was Adderall that triggered her alleged erratic behavior -- a drug that Mueller admitted she was abusing back in December 2012.
Mueller's rep declined to comment on reports of her mafia rant, but previously confirmed that she was getting help at UCLA Medical Center.
Mueller has since transfered to the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif., where she's apparently already run into Lindsay Lohan, who is serving 90-days in the center's hospital wing as well."
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Post by artemis on May 15, 2013 5:49:43 GMT -5
Perfect timing for more self-mutilation for sheeple
"Sambolin: I feel empowered, supported in cancer fight
What are the chances you walk into work and the lead story is Angelina Jolie has had a double mastectomy when you are facing one yourself?
I have been struggling for weeks with how to tell my co-workers and viewers that I have breast cancer and have chosen to have a double mastectomy. How much should I share? Will I be an emotional wreck? Do I want people feeling sorry for me?
Angelina empowered me to share my story.
I was diagnosed with breast cancer five weeks ago, on April 9. Saying it, talking about it, dealing with it has been a complicated journey. Luckily, I have a very early form of breast cancer called DCIS.
MRI scans show some questionable areas in my left breast and many in my right. After several consultations with some of the finest doctors in New York and Chicago (my hometown), volumes of research and some serious soul searching, I have chosen to have a double mastectomy.
Angelina Jolie chose to bear her soul in writing and I chose to follow her lead in front of all our viewers Tuesday. I identified with some of the issues she candidly discussed, such as her children, her sexuality and her femininity. I never expected to share this news so publicly and I certainly did not want to become the story.
But judging from the outpouring of support, I am not alone.
I have a history of fibrocystic breast tissue, which is very dense and complicated to read in a mammogram. For years, I've had biopsies and two years ago, prior to starting at CNN, I had a lumpectomy to remove abnormal tissue that doctors thought was cancer. One doctor said that in my case cancer was a matter of when, not if.
Still, when I got the call five weeks ago, it knocked me over.
My greatest challenge was sharing the news with the people who love me. My son Nico and my daughter Sofia were the hardest. I sat with Nico, 14, and asked him what came to mind when he thought of breast cancer.
His response was a fight. I knew then he had the right attitude.
I pulled out the book "Breast Cancer for Dummies" and explained in great detail what my diagnosis was and how I chose to treat it. He listened intently but still worried I was going to die. I explained that my decision gave me the best chance of survival long term. I promised this would not kill me.
I agonized for weeks about how to tell my daughter, and even consulted a psychologist.
Would she instantly think her breasts were sick, too? Were they? Would the information scare her and would she be overwhelmed by fear of losing me and potentially getting sick herself? I worried about nothing.
I asked her the same question I asked Nico and her response was that breast cancer makes people's hair fall out and that they get sick. I told her neither would happen to me and that I would have surgery and be back in no time. That was plenty for her.
I surprised myself by worrying about my sexuality. Logically, I knew that getting rid of all the breast tissue was the best decision for me. But would I still be attractive and desirable to my partner?
I was angry at myself for even caring about that, but I did. I was choosing reconstruction, so that to the outside world nothing would look different -- but I knew and he knew. Kenny, my fiancé, was focused on making me whole. He said nothing mattered more to him than having me alive.
Yet I still worried.
Kenny happens to be executive vice president of the Chicago White Sox and travels nonstop. But he halted his schedule so he could be by my side for every appointment and every moment of vulnerability. He held my hand and sat with me when I cried.
We have talked in great detail with doctors about the changes ahead, and privately about our personal feelings. They have been graphic, emotional conversations that have made us stronger.
Early on, a very dear friend told me very matter-of-factly to treat this cancer as a pain-in-the-ass inconvenience. Getting there takes time and, in my case, a lot of prayer and a lot of research.
I hope that every woman facing this decision takes the time to understand her options and surrounds herself with the support she needs to get through the difficult times.
There are challenges to access that need to be tackled, especially for our Latina women. There is a lot of work and I am poised for the challenge to help others like me. I am grateful for the support and information available to me. My goal is to pay my many blessings forward.
What I know, you will know. I am not yet on the other side, but judging by all the e-mails I've received from survivors, I am headed to a place that is stronger, wiser and definitely more empowered.
My final words here are thank you -- for the many blessings, thoughts, prayers and even hugs you have sent my way today.
Keep them coming!"
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Post by artemis on May 15, 2013 5:53:47 GMT -5
"Angie Everhart Reveals That She Has Thyroid Cancer
Former Sports Illustrated model Angie Everhart has revealed the unfortunate news that she has developed thyroid cancer. A representative for the model told Extra that she has just recently found out about her illness and will be undergoing surgery this week.
The rep said that whilst the diagnosis is obviously terrible news, the outcome may not be such a devastating one, with the prognosis for her surgery being relatively positive. The rep told Extra, "Word has been trickling out about [Angie's] health... [Angie] wants to set the record straight by letting everyone know that it is true that she has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, however, the prognosis is very good."
The rep went on to add that the model is in relatively high spirits and expects to be back on to her old self soon, going on to add that the former model will be going into surgery at some point today (May 14). Everhart is expected to make a full recovery from the disease following her surgery, with the rep mentioning that she plans on being back on "mommy duties in a few weeks." In the spirit of Angelina Jolie's recent announcement that she had a double mastectomy to prevent her from developing breast cancer, Everhart's rep said similarly that the model hopes that by releasing the information about her health struggle more women will be encouraged to keep regular tabs on their own health. The rep said Everhart wants to "encourage people to learn about cancer prevention, its signs and treatment immediately".
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Post by lucy on May 18, 2013 19:18:53 GMT -5
I may get brain cancer,so I'm having my brain removed! While I"m at it, I'll take my tongue out in case I get cancer, and perhaps remove my pancreas in the event of pancreatic cancer....does this make sense??
Remove anything that just may get cancer....
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Post by superman on May 19, 2013 16:43:44 GMT -5
I may get brain cancer,so I'm having my brain removed! While I"m at it, I'll take my tongue out in case I get cancer, and perhaps remove my pancreas in the event of pancreatic cancer....does this make sense?? Remove anything that just may get cancer.... No, but "I want to enhance my boobs, but I don't want to look like some vain, shallow Hollywood strumpet (especially after I fought hard to forge my image as the deep, caring humanitarian), so I'll fake a breast cancer scare that will necessitate me needing cosmetic surgery on my rack..." makes all the sense in the world.
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Post by beatlies on May 19, 2013 17:47:52 GMT -5
I may get brain cancer,so I'm having my brain removed! While I"m at it, I'll take my tongue out in case I get cancer, and perhaps remove my pancreas in the event of pancreatic cancer....does this make sense?? Remove anything that just may get cancer.... No, but "I want to enhance my boobs, but I don't want to look like some vain, shallow Hollywood strumpet (especially after I fought hard to forge my image as the deep, caring humanitarian), so I'll fake a breast cancer scare that will necessitate me needing cosmetic surgery on my rack..." makes all the sense in the world. There also seems to be an all-out effort on the part of our "Mockingbird" mass media to desensitize and normalize people to body mutilation, gruesome torture, medical atrocity, the dehumanization of women and children....
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Post by lucy on May 20, 2013 16:04:20 GMT -5
I'm screaming stop the insanity!!!! Let's make a skank starlet a great actress by telling the sheeple of her great acting skills....(I'm not sure Lara Tomb Raider would make her a comparison to Katherine Hepburn Or Bette Davis) Great humanitarian...let's show pictures of her with poor orphans in 3rd world countries and have the masses think she's of utmost value to society....Really? What in the name of pete is this? Take a movie crew to some poor location and make it look like she's doing this great deed for humanity?
What a pile of crap. Use the excuse of removing the "chance" of cancer to get a "boob" job....the "boob"job are the boobs that think she's a great humanitarian....give me a break.
How many people who supposedly applauded her doing this? How many others who have done this but it didn't have the effect?? This is sick.
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Post by artemis on May 29, 2013 3:41:31 GMT -5
"Cullen Finnerty found dead
BALDWIN — Police say former Grand Valley State quarterback Cullen Finnerty’s body has been found.
Finnerty was found in the woods tonight after disappearing Sunday. Lake County Sheriff Robert Hilts confirmed the death at a news conference.
“We were walking a good line,” said Scott Boyd, who was on the search party that found the body. “I squatted down. We had seen some trail. And a girl shouted. She walked right up on it. I thought, ‘Oh no.’ “
Boyd sat on a curb, staring off into space.
“I can’t believe it,” Boyd said.
Finnerty was fishing alone Sunday on the Baldwin River northeast of Baldwin. His family owns a cabin near Bray State Forest. Police say Finnerty called his wife Sunday night and said he was in danger, according to Hilts.
About 100 current and former football players and coaches from Grand Valley State searched through the thick, swampy woods northeast of Baldwin this afternoon, looking for Finnerty. The football players broke up and worked in small teams, stretching out, working slowly through the dense forest, focusing on 2 square miles of private and public land about 65 miles north of Grand Rapids.
Finnerty was found wearing fishing waders and a camouflaged jacket. He was in the woods about a half mile north of where he disappeared while on a fishing trip. There were no apparent injuries and no signs of foul play, according to Hilts.
“There was nothing obvious to us, to the view, of anything that would have caused his death,” Hilts said.
An autopsy will be performed.
Finnerty, who was the starting quarterback on Division II national championship teams in 2003, ‘05 and ‘06, had spent the holiday weekend with family near Baldwin, according to his father-in-law, Dan Brink of Muskegon.
“We had brats and hamburgers on Saturday and grilled chicken on Sunday,” Brink said. “Everything was cool. It was a great weekend. We had a lot of smiles, a lot of laughs. There were no indications. There were no problems.”
Brink said Finnerty decided to go fishing Sunday night.
“It was a nice night on Sunday and we thought, ‘There is a nice stretch of the river,’ and he got himself one of those boats, and he had been practicing on it. It’s a riverboat, a raft.
“We were only a quarter mile from each other,” Brink continued. “He ended up exactly where we told him to end up.”
After Finnerty called his wife, he disappeared.
Police found his small boat but no fishing equipment.
Finnerty, 30, was married with two small children. He was a star quarterback at Brighton High School.
“This sucks man,” said Joe Wohlscheid, who played offensive line when Finnerty was at GVSU. “Cullen was a great guy.”
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Post by artemis on May 30, 2013 4:49:03 GMT -5
Olivia Newton-John's older sister Rona dies of cancer
Rona Newton-John, the older sister of Olivia Newton-John, has died in the US at the age of 70. The British-born and Melbourne-raised model and actress was diagnosed with brain cancer in April.
Announcing her sister's disease last month, Olivia said: ''As a cancer 'thriver' myself, as many people are, I am very aware of the importance of love, support and family during this journey she is about to begin. I want to thank everyone in advance for respecting our privacy during this difficult time.''
Her older sister's deteriorating condition caused Olivia to cancel her coming dates in Las Vegas.
Rona was married to Grease star Jeff Conaway from 1980 to 1985. They had a son, Emerson Newton-John, a racing car driver.
Rona later married Melbourne restaurateur and nightclub owner Brian Goldsmith. Their daughter is Chantoozies star Tottie Goldsmith.
Rona appeared on The Benny Hill Show and the British TV series UFO."
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Post by beatlies on Jun 21, 2013 21:11:50 GMT -5
Chris Christie Honors James Gandolfini, Orders New Jersey Flags To Fly At Half Staff
The Huffington Post | By Gabrielle Dunkley Posted: 06/21/2013 3:57 pm EDT | Updated: 06/21/2013 7:20 pm EDT
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) ordered all state buildings to fly their flags at half staff on Monday in honor of the late "Sopranos" actor James Gandolfini (AP Photo)
Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.) ordered all New Jersey state buildings to fly flags at half-staff on Monday to mark the passing of actor and New Jersey native James Gandolfini, the New Jersey Star-Ledger reported on Friday.
While on vacation with his son in Italy, the 51-year-old star of the HBO series "The Sopranos" died of a massive heart attack, a hospital source told Reuters.
According to the Star-Ledger, Christie said the people of New Jersey "had a connection" to Gandolfini, who was from Westwood.
"All the people in the state really felt a connection to him, not just his character, but to him," Christie said Thursday. "He died much, much too young."
Christie was not the only politician to pay his respects to the late award-winning actor.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker (D) took to Twitter to share his condolences:
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) also tweeted his thoughts on Gandolfini:
Upon hearing the news of Gandolfini's passing, Hollywood stars, former colleagues and devoted fans took to various social media outlets to express their grief.
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Post by lucy on Jun 23, 2013 23:22:48 GMT -5
Nothing against this man, but there was more media coverage on his death than the death of Esther Williams who was a much bigger star, but was of another generation.
There's something to be said for mass coverage of a death....more than meets the eye.
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Post by beatlies on Jul 22, 2013 18:44:25 GMT -5
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